Return to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well with Good News!

The clouds above the Radiance Mountains wore pale golden edges in the afternoon sun. Two figures streaked across the sky, one behind the other, heading toward Spirit City.

Li Long kept his dragon wings beating steadily as he flew just behind Qian Shengyuan. From up here, his view was far wider than on the ground, and the fields and towns below drifted slowly backward.

He stayed silent for a while. Once his flying rhythm had settled, he turned toward Qian Shengyuan and asked, "Teacher, have you heard anything from my senior brother?"

Qian Shengyuan did not look back. His voice came from ahead, thinned by the wind at this height but still clear. "He's come out of seclusion. He completed the First Trial of the Angel God Trial, a little sooner than you expected."

Li Long felt a stir in his chest.

The First Trial had lasted three years, and just over three years had passed.

He angled his wings to close the distance between them and listened.

"After the First Trial, his Soul Power Level reached Level 74," Qian Shengyuan said matter-of-factly. "His Seventh Soul Ring was bestowed directly by the Divine Trial. It's at the hundred-thousand-year level. Red."

At the words "hundred-thousand-year" and "red Soul Ring," Li Long's glide faltered for the briefest instant.

A Level 74 Soul Saint with a red Seventh Soul Ring.

Qian Yaoting had advanced faster than he had expected.

Li Long himself was currently Level 64. His Sixth Soul Ring was black and sixty-three thousand years old, still a long way from a hundred thousand years.

But Qian Yaoting had crossed that threshold directly through the Angel God Trial.

"The Angel God Trial has its own mechanism for bestowing Soul Rings. The trial's rules determine their age and quality, so he doesn't need